Ethics In Health Administration: A Practical Approach For Decision Makers (4th Edition)

Description

With rapidly advancing technology and the ongoing discussion of health care reform post-Affordable Care Act, today’s healthcare administrators require a strong foundation in practice-based ethics to confront the challenges of the current health care landscape.

Ethics in Health Administration: A Practical Approach for Decision Makers, Fourth Edition focuses on the application of ethics to the critical issues faced by today’s healthcare administrators. After establishing a foundation in theory and principles, the text encourages students to apply ethics to areas of change, regulation, technology and fiscal responsibility in healthcare.

Thoroughly updated and more reader-friendly, the Fourth Edition has been significantly revised to include new cases, updated content, and additional resources to engage students while challenging them to think critically.

Key Features

• New cases in every chapter based on real-world events help to emphasize chapter content and encourage students to apply ethics to realistic situations.
• A new chapter on the Ethics in the Epoch of Change stresses major changes in healthcare, including the digital revolution, population health, ethics temptations and ethic resilience.
• New coverage of emerging senior service markets and functional medicine are addressed in Chapter 6.
• Every chapter now includes ethics application questions, summary statements, websites, and additional resources to further enhance learning.

Table of Contents

1. Section I Foundations for Ethics
   1. Chapter 1 Practical Theory
   2. Chapter 2 Autonomy
   3. Chapter 3 Nonmaleficence and Beneficence
   4. Chapter 4 Justice
   5. Chapter 5 Ethics in the Epoch of Change
2. Section II External Influences on Ethics
   1. Chapter 6 Market Forces and Ethics
   2. Chapter 7 Healthcare Regulation and Ethics
   3. Chapter 8 Technology and Ethics
3. Section III Organizational Influences on Ethics
   1. Chapter 9 No Mission, No Margin: Fiscal Responsibility
   2. Chapter 10 Healthcare Organizations: Culture and Ethics
   3. Chapter 11 The Ethics of Quality
   4. Chapter 12 Patient Issues and Ethics
   5. Chapter 13 Public Health and Ethics
   6. Chapter 14 Personal Ethics and Morality
4. Section IV The Inner Circle of Ethics
   1. Chapter 15 Codes of Ethics and Administrative Practice
   2. Chapter 16 Practicing as an Ethical Administrator

Author Biography

Eileen E. Morrison, EdD, MPH, CHES – Professor, Health Administration, Texas State University, San Marcos
Dr. Eileen Morrison is a graduate of Vanderbilt University where she earned her doctorate in counseling and administration. She also holds a MPH from the University of Tennessee. She has developed and taught courses in health administration ethics to both undergraduate and graduate students and has been active in educating professionals through workshops and journal articles. Currently, she is a professor of health administration at Texas State University in San Marcos Texas.